The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics.

The Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still collaborating on research with a Beijing lab for ...

Researchers at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond have induced heart attacks in dogs, surgically implanted pacemakers into them and trained them to run on treadmills, all in the ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

Experiments and testing on cats, dogs and primates by the Department of Veterans Affairs must end by 2026 under newly enacted legislation that lawmakers highlighted during a House subcommittee hearing ...

California Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Juan Vargas joined with Republican Reps. Ken Calvert and David Valadao to sign a letter calling on the National Institutes of Health to support alternatives ...

A controversial experiment on dogs continues at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Ohio. The dogs are used in experiments that officials say could help veterans with ALS, paralysis and stroke cough, ...

Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, ...